Marino Arroyo

Associate professor at UPC
Research area: Mathematical Modelling

PhD in Mechanical Engineering obtained at Northwestern University (USA)

Biosketch

Before joining the UPC, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a long-term visitor at the Institute for the Mathematics and its Applications (University of Minnesota). I have been awarded the O. C. Zienkiewicz Award for Young Scientists in Computational Engineering Sciences by ECCOMAS (2010), a Icrea Academia Award (2009), and the ASME/BOEING Structures and Materials Award (2003). I have also been the Timoshenko Visiting Scholar at Stanford. In 2009, I was awarded a Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council. Please see my Researcher ID profile. Most of my publications can be downloaded from here.

Research lines

  • Mechanics and physics of small-scale materials and biological systems
  • Mathematical modelling and computation
  • Cell and membrane biophysics
  • Buckling of two-dimensional materials and structures
  • Relation between continuum and atomistic models

Selected publications

  • A.Torres-Sánchez, J.M. Vanegas and M. Arroyo (2015), Examining the Mechanical Equilibrium of Microscopic Stresses in Molecular Simulations, Physical Review Letters, 114:258102.
  • L. Casares, R. Vincent, D. Zalvidea, N. Campillo, D. Navajas, M. Arroyoand X. Trepat (2015), Hydraulic fracture during epithelial stretching, Nature Materials, 14:43-351.
  • M. Arroyo, L. Heltai, D. Millan and A. DeSimone (2012) Reverse engineering the euglenoid move- ment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 109:17874-17879.
  • M. Arroyo and A. DeSimone (2009), Relaxation dynamics of fluid membranes, Physical Review E, 79:031915.
  • M. Arroyo and M. Ortiz (2006), Local maximum-entropy approximation schemes: a seamless bridge between finite elements and meshfree methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 65, 2167-2202.